Minutes - 12/6/2001

Missouri Western State College
Faculty Senate Minutes
December 6, 2001

Call to order:

The meeting was called to order at 4:17 p.m. by Robert Klostermeyer, Faculty Senate President.

Senators present:

Larry Andrews, Brenda Blessing, Mike Cadden, Ben Caldwell, Bill Church, Steven Greiert, Marilyn Hunt, Robert Klostermeyer, Mark Mikkelsen, Barry Nelson, Evan Noynaert, Keith Rhodes, Mike Smith, John Tapia, Kelly Williams, Carolyn Windsor

Senators absent:

Sally Radmacher

Ex-officio members present:

None

Guests present:

Kathyrne Mueller
Phil Mullins

Approval of minutes:

The minutes of the previous meeting of November 15, 2001 were approved as submitted (Greiert).

Approval of agenda:

The agenda for today's meeting was approved as proposed (Noynaert).

Report from Faculty Senate executive committee:

Robert Klostermeyer, Faculty Senate president, reported that the Senate executive committee has met with President Scanlon to discuss the recent additional 5 percent withholding of state operating funds for the college. At that meeting, President Scanlon requested a list of names of faculty members for his consideration for appointment to the search committee for the vice president for academic and student affairs and the search committee for vice president for financial planning and administration. Scanlon indicated that at least 50 percent of the membership of each of these committees would likely be faculty members. The executive committee subsequently met and proposed three faculty members from each of the two academic divisions for each of these search committees.

The executive committee also considered a request from the curriculum committee to appear again at a senate meeting for discussion of curriculum proposals. The executive committee refused this request after some deliberation. An invitation will be extended to the chair of the curriculum committee to meet with the executive committee following the final exam week. The curriculum committee chair, however, will report to the faculty senate at the next senate meeting on curriculum proposals passed by that committee.

President Klostermeyer then distributed additional copies of the Ad Hoc Grievance Review Committee Report (see Attachment A of Faculty Senate Minutes of 15 November 2001), in preparation for the ensuing discussion.

Old business:

Senator Greiert moved to take from the table the Ad Hoc Grievance Review Committee Report for purposes of continuing discussion. The motion to remove from the table passed unanimously.

Ad-hoc grievance committee report:

President Klostermeyer initiated the discussion of the report by suggesting that each of the eleven inherent proposals will be discussed in order. After discussion of each proposal, the senate affirmed in principle each proposal, with the understanding that the eleven proposals would be returned to the ad hoc committee for possible refinement and/or re-wording.

New business:

Senator Church presented the possibility of introducing legislation which would amend the college grading scale from its current 4.0 standard. Discussion followed concerning this possibility, but no particular motion was presented. Church indicated that a motion to that effect may be forthcoming in a later senate meeting.

Adjournment:

The meeting was adjourned at 5:21 p.m. (Nelson)


G. Barry Nelson
Faculty Senate Secretary